Unit Outline and Assignments


Learning Materials

week 1
Intro: Contexts of Assessment: why and how do we assess?

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Purposes of Assessment, Good Assessments


Assessment Against Standards


Assessment Tasks

Assessment for Learning Tasks

Feedback: John Hattie articles
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Teaching Week: Lesson Obs
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Darwin CDU Week

Assignment Support

1b: Mini-portfolio: addressing the Professional Standards in Assessment and Reporting

a: THE STANDARDS

Standard 5: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

Professional Practice (Graduate Level)

5.1
Assess student learning
Demonstrate understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess student learning.
5.2
Provide feedback to students on their learning
Demonstrate an understanding of the purpose of providing timely and appropriate feedback to students about their learning.
5.3
Make consistent and comparable judgements
Demonstrate understanding of assessment moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning.
5.4
Interpret student data
Demonstrate the capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice.
5.5
Report on student achievement
Demonstrate understanding of a range of strategies for reporting to students and parents/carers and the purpose of keeping accurate and reliable records of student achievement.
AITSL Professional Standards
AITSL Illustrations of Practice

b: THE GOOGLE SITE E_PORTFOLIO

A simple, free and easy tool to use is Google sites ( http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html)and provides simplicity, security and a lot of storage for your files and content.
A sample site has been created and some tips to get started as easy as 1... 2... 3...!
https://sites.google.com/site/cdusampletl3/
Video Tutorials


2: Assessment for Learning Assignment

The Australian National Curriculum has a range of annotated examples, this link will take you to the English Curriculum;